[OSM-talk-be] Fixing administrative borders

[Andre Engels]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>> Don't have much time to reply, so a short one:
>>
>> Always look at the country specific page to get the answers. The
>> international
>> page is just there for some "guiding", but the countries have to make
>> their
>> own rules. As is the case for Belgium.
>>
>> country: level 2
>> regions: level 4
>> communities: level 5
>> provinces: level 6
>> arrondissements: level 7
>> municipalities: level 8
>> district/deelgemeentes/sections: level 9
>
> Then why is this information not on the international page? There is
> absolutely no reason to have conflicting information on a wiki.
> In this list I am missing single towns. A municipality consists of multiple
> towns. Should it not be: municipality:8, town:9,
> district/deelgemeentes/sections:10?
> I assume 10 can be used for sububurbs/wijken too? (does Belgium have that
> concept like the Netherlands?)

'Deelgemeente' in Belgium is a different concept than in the
Netherlands. They are former municipalities, which in the 1960s or
1970s have fused into larger municipalities. Thus, a
deelgemeente/district/section is more like a town than like a wijk.


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com